Fun Weekend!

Okay so for months I have been telling Siera that I would take her to the opening night of High School Musical 3. She has been counting down the days, believe me and she would not let me forget it was coming up. So we invited my Mom to go and we went to the 9:30pm show. We were lucky because no one was in the theatre. We had it almost to ourselves.

Well I do have to say I loved the movie. My Mom hadn't seen the other 2 yet, but she really liked it too. It was the best one out of the 3. Siera is in love with Zac Efron along with probably every other young girl in America. I do have to say though. He is adorable! The only real negative thing I can say is that I wish the girls in it dressed more modestly. They had some real short skirts and little bit of a couple of low cut shirts. But other than that. I thought it was great! Tara I know your dying to see it, so we will take you next time your here! (I'm sure your glad that I posted that you love those movies. ha ha)

Saturday night was our ward Halloween party. This year Siera asked my Mom if she would make her costume. She said I don't care what I am, I just want you to make me something. (I swear I didn't put her up to it). So my Mom is so awesome. She made both her and Savani's dresses for Halloween. She took them shopping to pick out there material. They are the same exact pattern, but with the material each of them chose, they turned out very different. Siera wanted to be Dracula's bride and Savani was a midieval princess. They adore there dresses and feel so special that there Grandma made it for them.

So then Joshua found a batman costume at the store and Milika wore a costume that all the kids have worn. I think they all looked pretty darn cute. I am just so excited that it looks like it is going to be warm on Friday for trick or treating. Yea!

Tagged by Lia

Answer the questions with one word (or a little more) and then tag three people.
1. Where is your cellphone? hand or near me
2. Your significant other? Lloyd
3. Your hair? Brown w/ blonde highlights
4. Your mother? Linda
5. Your Father? David
6. Your favorite thing? movies
7. Your dream last night? can't remember
8. Your favorite drink? powerade zero or diet coke
9. Your dream goal? children grow up succesful in everyway
10. The room you’re in? computer room
11. Your hobby? reading
12. Your fear? Losing a child to death
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? same as now, maybe with more money?? :)
14. What you’re not? getting a lot of sleep
15. Muffins? not really
16. One of your wish list item? million dollars
17. Where you grew up? West Valley City
18. Last thing you did? baked choc chip cookies
19. What are you wearing? tan shorts, blue and white t-shirt
20. Favorite gadget? my new cell phone
21. Your pets? none
22. Your computer? dell
23.Your mood? tired
24. Missing someone? sister Tara in Vegas
25. Your Car? Chevy Suburban & Chevy Cobalt
26. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
27. Favorite store? Kohls
28. Like someone? sure
29. Favorite color? pink
30. When was the last time you laughed? this morning
31.When was the last time you cried? few days ago
I tag Mary Ann, Shannon & Katie Y

Saturday's

So for the last month this is the typical Saturday for the Amasio family. We get up around 7am or earlier. It just depends on where Joshua's football game is. All of his games start at 9am, but he has to be there at 8am. So if we have to go out of town, then we are up much earlier. So this week it was at our home field, which was nice. They played Bountiful. It was a great game. Joshua ran 40 yds for a touchdown, his 2nd touchdown of the year. We lost by 1 point. It was 13-12. Kind of a heartbreaker loss. They played so hard! Joshua has worked so hard. In the beginning when football practices started him and Lloyd would come home after and work on the plays and study the playbook. I am so proud of him. He plays tight end on offense and middle linebacker on defense and is also the punt returner on the kickoff returns. He does great and seems to love it!!

So usually the football games get over close to 10:30. Then we rush to get Savani and Joshua to their soccer games. Yes I did say Joshua. When we signed him up for both sports we didn't really know they would overlap this closely with each other. I know what your thinking. There was a talk I think last conference that spoke about not over scheduling your kids. I think I am a little guilty of that this time. So most of the time Joshua has been able to get to his soccer games at half time and play the 2nd half. He loves soccer as well. The league that we are in when you sign them up, it is for both seasons. So in Spring there will be no football to interfere with soccer for him. So he made it to his 2nd half of his soccer game and scored 7 goals for his team. They won 9-1. He is great at soccer. We had 2 boys that used to live next to us that are Hispanic and that's all them and Joshua would do all day long is play soccer. Joshua learned so many skills from them.

Savani and Joshua's games are during the same time. So me and Lloyd have to take turns watching them. It was sad because I ran over to see how Joshua's team was doing and left Siera to watch Savani for a minute. I ran back just in time to have Siera tell me that Savani scored a goal. Sooo funny! You never know what will happen with 4 yr olds that are playing. Most of the time Savani just flirts with the boys on the other team and doesn't care what's going on with the game. What can you expect with that age???

After Joshua and Savani's games we have about a half hour break before Siera's soccer game starts at 1pm. We hurried and ran to Wendy's and got some lunch before her game started. My sister Tara was in town and her and my Mom were kind enough to spend the day with us.

This is Siera's 2nd year playing soccer. We started her at about age 4 and then never put her in again until now. I wish we would of left her in. She is doing very well though. She is a great defender. I love soccer because it is such great exercise for the kids.

After Siera's game we usually get home just in time to start watching football on TV. This week BYU had a bye and so Lloyd took the kids home for us and my Mom, me and my sister Tara went and pampered ourselves with a pedicure. It was a fun day. We have been so lucky to have such nice weather throughout on these Saturdays. I am just hoping it last through October. Thanks Tara for hanging with us a little bit before you had to drive home back to Vegas. :) So is anyone else have crazy days like this? I guess it will just get busier as they get older. I love it though and wouldn't change anything. It's been so fun watching all of them!!

The Mom Quiz

I took this from my friend Kim's blog... I loved the idea of it. The thing with this mom quiz is that you do it with one of your children. I had Siera type in the answers and then I went back and commented on her answers.

1. What is something mom always says to you? I need a massage Siera . Yep that's true, Siera gives great massages.

2. What makes mom happy? When my room is clean . I do like the house clean.

3. What makes mom sad? When I fight with my siblings . It drives me crazy! So glad school is back in. Yea, now there is only limited time for fighting.

4. How does mom make you laugh? She says the wierdest things , she always makes me burst out with laughter . Not sure what weird things I say, I'll have to find this out as well.

5. What was mom like as a child? Dirty and stubburn . Ha Ha so I've been told.

6. How old is your mom? 36 What??? Only 34. I will make sure she knows this.

7. How tall is your mom? 5.3 Well I like to say I'm 5'4", but it may be closer to 5'3".

8. What is her favorite thing to do? Read or watch "Lost" and "Big Brother". That's right I do love to read and watch tv.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? Take a nap or eat baked Lays and read a book . How funny about the baked lays part. I do love those chips though.

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Writing a book for sure . Couldn't be further from the truth. I'm not a writer by any means, that is your department Siera.

11. What is your mom really good at? Blogging, reading ,cooking ,cleaning, and her job . Well thank you Siera. I think you are being way too kind though. I am not very good at cooking and rarely do it, but yes I do like to think I am good at cleaning and my job.

12. What is your mom not very good at? Chilling for a minute . Great reminder to just chill with the kids.

13. What does your mom do for her job? She works for jetblue . Yep

14. What is your mom's favorite food? Ice cream ,baked Lays ,and home made hamburgers . She nailed it.

15. What makes you proud of your mom? How well she takes care of everything and still has time to relax . I guess. I don't know that I do a very good job taking care of everything, but I try my best and I do know that I can relax once things are taken care of. But what makes me the most proud are my kids. Nothing could make me prouder. Good to know I need to show that waaaay more often to them.

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? Cinderella cause shes always cleaning things . How sad, I guess I am a little OCD with cleaning, but hey I'll take Cinderella.

17. What do you and your mom do together? Go to movies, resturants ,and to get our nails done . I love hanging with you Siera, your so much fun!

18. How are you and your mom the same? We agree on almost everything , shes my best friend . Your a sweetheart! I hope you'll always feel this way. I'll keep copy of this and show you when your a teenager. :)

19. How are you and your mom different? Sometimes I'm clean , other times I'm not shes clean all the time . Again I am OCD with cleaning. I get it from my own mother. Thanks mom! :)

20. How do you know your mom loves you? Because I know she'd do anything for me , and I'd do anything for her . I am so glad you know that. I love you, it was fun doing this with you! You are my sweet, sweet girl!

Happy Valley

So I watched this movie over the weekend called "Happy Valley". It is a documentary about the drug problem in Utah. Okay I wasn't sure what to think of this movie. It talks a lot about how teenagers are popping pain killers and using that to get high instead of the other ways. And because it is just a pill that is prescribed by a doctor they don't think there is anything wrong with it. It was really sad. It made me worry about my kids and wish for them not to get any older or become teenagers. Also the movie brought out a little bit about the pressures of being a member of the Lds church and how sometimes members try to hide their problems because we worry so much about what people think of us. I don't know. In a way I really thought it was a good movie, but on the other hand a lot of things bothered me about it. I do recommend it, especially for those of you that have teenagers. Have any of you seen it??? What did you think??? I'm dying to hear other opionions.

The "Keeping it Real" Tag

Okay so my sister Tara tagged me to do this fun one. The idea is to take pictures, according to the instructions, of how things are now. Not after you clean, put on make up or wash the dishes. It's how it is now. So I got this yesterday and took the pics yesterday and I have just had a free minute to blog about it. So remember this is keeping it real

My toilet in my kids bathroom. Thank goodness I cleaned on Wednesday, so it doesn't look too bad.

The kitchen sink. My kids are constantly eating cereal and it feels like there are always bowls in the sink to wash.

My closet. I would love to have it to myself and have Lloyd have his own, but that' s okay.

My favorite room in the house is probably my bedroom. I love my furniture and love to read and watch tv in there.

My laundry room. It's the catch all room since it is off the entry from the garage. Sometimes it's frustrating because I feel like it is never clean and organized. Oh well. :)

My fridge. It desperately needs a cleaning.

My child Milika at the time was the only one home. She is crawling and standing up to everything.

My favorite shoes. I love slippers (flip flops, but our family calls them slippers). I live in them all year long. Then the other pair are my favorite dress up shoes.

My husband had just gotten home from work and was getting ready to go to Joshua's football practice.

This is me! (obviously you know that) This is at the end of the day after work and trying to figure out something for dinner.

Okay so now it is your turn. I tag Cherish, Jill Ceser, Josselyn, Lia and Mary Ann. Remember to keep it real. :)

Tribute to Ms Robbins

So this weekend I found out some horrible news. My son's 2nd grade teacher last year had been stabbed to death. Her name was Molly Robbins. She was THE best teacher any one of my kids had ever had. She had nothing but praise for the kids in her class. She came to almost every one of Joshua's soccer games and she did the same for other kids in her class. She was very involved and loved these kids so much. She was 51 yrs old and the mother of 5. This is what the paper had to say about what happened.
A Magna woman was killed Friday afternoon by a man police say broke into her home and stabbed her.
The victim's 14-year-old daughter also was assaulted, police say, but fled the home as the attack began and called police from a neighbor's house at about 4:15 p.m.
The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office received a second call five minutes later from a home about three blocks away. They arrested a man, who was an acquaintance of the victim, in connection with the killing.
Molly Robbins, a 51-year-old mother of five, was pronounced dead at the scene of the attack near 7300 West and 4000 South.
Neighbors said the man police arrested, 52-year-old Charles Gunkel, was at one time a boyfriend of the victim. Wendy Carmean said she had known Robbins for 20 years and had seen her and Gunkel holding hands together in church two weeks ago.
Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Paul Jaroscak said Gunkel was booked Friday night on investigation of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault. Jaroscak said the exact cause of Robbins' death would be determined by a medical examiner, but that she had suffered stab wounds. A knife was recovered in a front hedge at Robbins' home.
Another neighbor and long-time friend of Robbins, Joy Laisnez, shook her head in disbelief over the incident and said no one she knew had witnessed any indication that the relationship between Gunkel and Robbins could turn violent. Laisnez said her daughter was a friend of Robbins' daughter and had spent time around Gunkel and Robbins. After the incident Friday, Laisnez said she asked her daughter if she'd ever seen anything "inappropriate" happen while around the couple, and her daughter said "never."
"My daughter was in shock. 'How could he do that? ... How could he do that? ... He was the nicest guy,' was what she said to me," Laisnez said.
A neighbor of Gunkel's who asked not to be identified said he knew the suspect only in passing, but he couldn't believe what happened Friday night.
"This is a quiet, family-oriented neighborhood. ... It's just not the kind of thing you'd ever expect," he said.

She was a wonderful person and a wondeful teach and every time I think about this it just makes me sick. I wish she could of died another way instead of such a horrible death. She did teach at West Valley Elementary before Gearld Wright opened up, so some of you may of known her. Such a sad, sad story.